Political vigilance will no longer be – Akufo-Addo

General News of Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

2019-03-26

President Akufo-Addo badured the Ghanaian community in Malta that his administration would rid the country of political vigilance aimed at safeguarding peace.

Speaking to the Ghanaian community in Malta on the first day of his two-day visit to the Mediterranean nation, Akufo-Addo said the country faces many challenges, including vigilantism.

However, his administration, he said, will do everything possible to prevent militancy from rooting more in the country.

"We have many challenges in our country," the president told his audience.

He added: "You know the current political problems, the phenomenon of political vigilance, etc. These are disturbing questions, but these are questions that I am determined to master. "

"Whatever happens, we will rid our country of some of these phenomena. We do not need it in the new Ghana we are trying to build, "said the president.

He added that "we must have a country in which decisions are made based on the strength of the argumentation and the quality of the presentations made by the various political actors of the state. If we all agree that this is the way forward, these unpleasant phenomena that we are witnessing in our country lately will also be under control. "

Public Financial Management

President Akufo-Addo expressed his great satisfaction that the country has finally completed its sixteenth rescue program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

"We are now alone, but I think we are all alone, there is something very important that we all need to learn from the experience of the latest IMF program, which is the following: in the course of 60 years of our independence, the IMF program was the 16th time we went to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout, because our public finances could not stand the pressure of mismanagement anymore. fundamental and fundamental issue that we must all keep in mind is discipline in managing our public finances, "he observed.

course

According to him, the country's exit from the last IMF bailout program signed by former President John Mahama in 2015 accompanies a major discipline lesson. This lesson, he said, must preserve our spending culture as a country.

"It's not easy to say that you have to live within your means, but if you want to be able to do great things, you expand your means, you do not spend money you do not have, it's always the road to chaos. We must learn that discipline in the management of public finances must now be the fundamental building block of our economy and that is the lesson that the latest IMF bailout program should impress us all, "he said. said Akufo-Addo. .

The Maltese custom

In his address, he stressed that the Maltese had the custom of visiting the heads of state not only with representatives of the ruling party, but also with opposition leaders, adding that Ghana could imitate.

"It's a good custom and it's a custom that we have to try to emulate in Ghana. I have to meet with the Leader of the Opposition tomorrow after meeting with the President, the Prime Minister and the others. All this to show that during a visit like this, you meet the whole of the Maltese nation and not only those who are in temporary charge. I think it's something we should also incorporate into our national culture, "Akufo-Addo suggested.